Images and other media are imported by building a list of items to import, and then importing from the list.
The Media List is an assembly of items collected for import into the Personal Collection during this session. When items are added to the list, they are flagged as “Pending.” Once imported, they are then flagged as “Complete.”
The Media List exists only during the life of the current editing session.
It is not
a permanent import log. “Pending”
entries will not be retained from session to session. Upon
exiting the Personal Insight Editor, the Media List is discarded.
Building the Media List
Importing the Media List
There are two requirements for using media in Personal Collections:
Any image must be at least 384 pixels in length or width to be displaced in the Image Workspace.
Any image must be one of the following formats
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Supported Image Types |
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BMP |
GIF |
JPEG |
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TIFF |
TIFF (with LZW) |
RAW |
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PGM |
PNG |
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Supported Multimedia Types |
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AIFF (.aiff) |
MIDI (.mid) |
QuickTime (continued) |
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8-bit mono/stereo linear |
Type 1 & 2 MIDI |
Video: JPEG (420, 422, 444) |
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16-bit mono/stereo linear |
MPEG-1 Video (.mpg) |
Video: RGB |
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G.711 (U-law) |
Multiplexed System stream |
Sun Audio (.au) |
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A-law |
Video-only stream |
8 bits mono/stereo linear |
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IMA4 ADPCM |
MPEG Layer II Audio (.mp2) |
16 bits mono/stereo linear |
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AVI (.avi) |
MPEG layer 1, 2 audio |
G.711 (U-law) |
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Audio: 8-bit mono/stereo linear |
QuickTime (.mov) |
A-law |
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Audio: 16-bit mono/stereo linear |
Audio: 8 bits mono/stereo linear |
Wave (.wav) |
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Audio: DVI ADPCM compressed |
Audio: 16 bits mono/stereo linear |
8-bit mono/stereo linear |
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Audio: G.711 (U-law) |
Audio: G.711 (U-law) |
16-bit mono/stereo linear |
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Audio: A-law |
Audio: A-law |
G.711 (U-law) |
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Audio: GSM mono |
Audio: GSM mono |
A-law |
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Video: Cinepak |
Audio: IMA4 ADPCM |
GSM mono |
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Video: MJPEG (422) |
Video: Cinepak |
DVI ADPCM |
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Video: RGB |
Video: H.261 |
MS ADPCM |
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Video: YUV |
Video: H.263 |
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Flash (.fla) |
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There are two methods of building the Media List.
Drag and Drop -- Media items of acceptable types may be dragged from other applications into the Media List. You will be unable to drop unacceptable media types into the Media List.
Browse -- Press the 
button to open a file import dialog that lets you navigate
to directories on your system containing media. You
may select multiple files. All
selected files will be added to the Media List.
Press import to invoke the importer. The
importer will process “Pending” items in the Media List (“Complete” items
will be skipped). The
importer creates the full suite of Insight Images for all known image
types and brings media of other types into the collection unchanged. The
importer also creates a data record for each Media List item processed.
NOTE:
unlike 
, 
processes the entire list, not just the highlighted item(s).
opens
a file import dialog that lets you navigate to directories on your system
containing media. You
may select multiple files. All
selected files will be added to the Media List.
to
delete highlighted Media List item(s). Media
List items deleted while in a “Pending” state will not be imported. Deleting
a Media List item in a “Complete” state has no effect, that item has already
been imported.
to
cancel an import in process. Media
List entries that are marked “Complete” are already imported and not affected
by "cancel" . Media
List entries still marked “Pending” will remain pending.
invokes the importer (see
Importing the Media List above).